Hurricane Irene

[jimmy olsen]

41 dead from a category 1? 

[CountDeMoney]

41 dead from a category 1? 

Hurricanes don't kill people, fallen lines, house-crushing trees and out-of-commission traffic lights kill people.  You fucking monkey retard fuck.

[Caliga]

Around 10 years ago there was a Tropical Storm (i.e. never reached hurricane force) that was so destructive that they retired its name.

[jimmy olsen]

41 dead from a category 1? 

Hurricanes don't kill people, fallen lines, house-crushing trees and out-of-commission traffic lights kill people.  You fucking monkey retard fuck.

Yeah, but the stronger the hurricane the more fallen lines, house-crushing trees and out-of-commission traffic lights you get. Not to mention a powerful storm surge and stronger winds.

[CountDeMoney]

41 dead from a category 1? 

Hurricanes don't kill people, fallen lines, house-crushing trees and out-of-commission traffic lights kill people.  You fucking monkey retard fuck.

Yeah, but the stronger the hurricane the more fallen lines, house-crushing trees and out-of-commission traffic lights you get.

Go fucking die already, please?

[Caliga]

Ok, I looked it up.  Tropical Storm Allison killed 41 people and did $5.5 billion in damage in 2001.

[Richard Hakluyt]

Back in 1987 the there was a big storm that hit London and SE England. The worst of the storm was in the early hours so only a few people died. It caused a lot of chaos even though the winds only reached a peak of 100mph (gusts of wind, not sustained). However, it was the worst storm in a century to hit that area and brought down millions of trees. If it had hit the Shetlands it would have been just another "what a bloody awful windy day....again!", in the SE it was quite a disaster...........we were lucky the death toll was so low.

[lustindarkness]

I'm no meteorologist, but in my personal experience with tropical storms, it seems to me the lower categories most of the time bring more rain than hurricanes. Floods kill people too.

[Neil]

Stay classy Bachmann:

I don't know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians. We've had an earthquake; we've had a hurricane. He said, 'Are you going to start listening to me here?' Listen to the American people because the American people are roaring right now. They know government is on a morbid obesity diet and we've got to rein in the spending."

It's just a joke.  If James Carville can avoid getting his panties in a twist about it, surely you can.

I think her excuse that this is a joke is probably worse, politically, than if she was serious. Now she is joking about the death of 20 people.

That's not really that bad either.  Twenty people out of a hundred million?  More people probably died of hangnail-related complications that day.

[Ideologue]

The American has no stomach for casualties.

[DGuller]

The only God's punishment for legalizing gay marriage is Michelle Bachmann.

[Razgovory]

The only God's punishment for legalizing gay marriage is Michelle Bachmann.

If only Pat Robertson was there.  He drove off a Hurricane before.

[DGuller]

The only God's punishment for legalizing gay marriage is Michelle Bachmann.

If only Pat Robertson was there.  He drove off a Hurricane before.

I can see why he would.  If God metes out hurricanes as a punishment, it would be counter-productive to send it wherever Pat Robertson is at the moment.

[Ed Anger]

The only God's punishment for legalizing gay marriage is Michelle Bachmann.

If only Pat Robertson was there.  He drove off a Hurricane before.

Pat makes WONDERFUL pancakes.

[KRonn]

Some years ago I was hunting in Wareham, Mass. We were on a river bank not too far from where the river empties into the ocean. It was raining, normal storm, but there was a storm tide that we didn't realize. High tide came but the water kept rising fast. Pretty quickly the entire land area around us was covered in water. We used a canoe to get out of there, and that was tricky enough, being careful to keep to calmer water until we got to higher ground. Parts of the neighborhood nearby was flooded out. My friend's car was ruined due to being immersed in water. Just a mess all around. That was my introduction to how bad a storm tide could be, and this was really not a big storm, else we wouldn't have gone hunting in the first place.